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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Traffic police on Monday announced that Pireos Street in Athens has been closed to vehicle traffic in both directions, between the junctions with Hamosternas Street and Petrou Ralli Street, due to the heavy rain.
The weather will be rainy in many parts of Greece throughout the week, according to the meteo weather service of the Athens National Observatory.
On Monday, intense weather phenomena are expected throughout the country with rainstorms in most parts of Greece, starting from the east and south, in Central Macedonia and the islands of the Cyclades and later in the eastern Aegean islands, eastern Macedonia and Thrace.
The storms are expected to be intense and they may be followed by hailstorm. The winds in the Aegean will reach 8.0 on the Beaufort scale. The city of Athens and the whole region of Attica are included in the areas that will be affected by the intense phenomena.
On Tuesday, rain will continue to fall in many parts of Greece but with less intensity than on Monday. Winds will continue to blow from western directions, reaching up to 8.0 Beaufort.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.